The father of a mentally challenged 16-year-old boy has confined him to a makeshift steel cage to keep him in the family's house in the village of Al-Faho Bani Jaber. Moharib Salim Al-Jabri has been confined to the cage for years. The father said that he applied to the Ministry of Social Affairs several times over the years to take his son into a social care home, but he never got a response. Jam'an Al-Zahrani, the director of the Social Development Office in Al-Qunfutha, said the boy was examined and a report was prepared and submitted to the ministry. He said the office is waiting for the Ministry's instructions to take the boy and transport him to the nearest rehabilitation center in Makkah. – Okaz __
